How to Get Unlimited Google Photos Storage Forever!

0:00 all right I got to keep it real with you i'm getting so tired of paying Google every month just to store all of my old photos and videos that I barely even look at half the time like seriously right now I'm dropping $10 a month for 2 terb of cloud storage and at the rate that I'm going according to Google I'll probably have to upgrade to the 5 TBTE plan in about 2 years that one's $25 a month or $250 a year like that's crazy just to store stuff that I don't even look at half the time so yeah I had to figure something out fast now here's the deal when you make a Google account they give you 15 GB of free storage sounds decent at first but if you're anything like me and you're constantly snapping pictures saving stuff to Drive or

0:45 recording videos in 4K that space gets eaten up real fast just to give you an idea a single 4 to 5 minute video in 4K resolution already takes up 1 GB of storage so yeah that 15 GB doesn't last long at all and once you hit that limit Google pretty much locks everything down you won't be able to back up anything new you can't send or receive emails and your only options are either paying up or deleting stuff you probably still want to keep sure you could start backing up everything to an external hard drive or even set up a fancy NAS server but let's be honest that stuff's expensive complicated bulky large and doesn't have the slick search features like face recognition tools or amazing AI photo editing perks that Google

1:32 Photos already provides so I started digging around and guess what i found a few sneaky little workarounds that let you keep using Google Photos and get unlimited cloud storage yes unlimited even if you're on Android or iPhone and the best part is that all of this is 100% legal no shady hacks or sketchy thirdparty stuff i'm going to walk you through all of them step by step and trust me I save the absolute best method for the very end so stick around for that oh and while you're here make sure to save this video so that you don't lose it later on and maybe even share it with a friend who's tired of paying for that monthly fee too and drop a thumbs up if you want me to keep making more clever stuff like this anyways let's dive in let's start with the first trick which is built right into Google Photos

2:17 and is completely free to use it's a feature called partner sharing and to find it you can just tap on your profile icon then photo settings sharing and there it is partner sharing now this is a really neat feature to have cuz it lets you link a second Google account it could be one you just made or one that you've had forever and any photos or videos you take on that second account will also pop up within your main one even being searchable or allowing you to edit them too the only difference is that all that shared data won't count against your main account storage space so to set it up just pick a start time i set mine to all time and then afterward you can type in the email of your second account i can then confirm it and after

3:04 that I switch over to the second Google account and accept the partner invite when it pops up if it doesn't pop up right away don't worry just give it a few seconds or restart the app or you should have also received an email with that Google Photos invitation so you can accept it there too after that you'll see a new page with a menu called autosave pictures this is the secret sauce cuz this feature lets your main account automatically see all the shared photos and videos that you take from your second account and again all that media won't be counted toward your primary Google storage space it's even in the fine print in other words I can take photos and videos while being signed into the second account let everything be backed up and then those files will also show up on my main account without using any of the storage

3:52 plus again I still love that I can search for those photos easily without needing to switch accounts so yeah you're kind of getting free cloud storage here basically merging two Google accounts together on top of that you can only partner share with one account at a time is it a little tedious yeah but if you're mostly backing up photos and not a ton of videos this can really stretch your storage without paying a dime the second thing you can do to save a ton of storage is quickly compress all your photos and videos you might remember that when you first set up Google Photos it asked you if you wanted to back everything up and then in the settings you could change the backup quality to original quality so that all the photos and videos save at full resolution or storage saver which means that they save at a slightly lower

4:37 quality but with a much smaller file size now if you picked original quality back then and you're starting to regret it because your storage is almost full don't worry you can actually go back and compress everything you've already uploaded it's super easy too but here's the catch you can't do it through the app you've got to do it on Google Photos website for this one so go to photos.google.com then tap on the little hamburger menu scroll all the way down to storage and tap it then scroll again until you see recover storage tap on learn more and boom a hidden menu that lets you compress all of your previously uploaded photos and videos so that they take up way less space now just a heads up once you do this there's no going

5:24 back you can't just re-upscale everything to its original size later on but honestly for most people the difference in quality is barely noticeable unless you're a photographer or super picky about resolution it's probably totally fine this could actually save you enough space to downgrade your Google 1 plan too imagine that same photos less money out of your pocket every month not too shabby right now even if you're backing up all your photos and videos to Google super secure servers that doesn't mean your online data is totally safe we kind of take for granted how easy it is to get hacked these days google themselves have even been breached plenty of times in the past and if you're not using a VPN you're basically leaving the door wide open for your data to get leaked too personally I've been using Surf Shark

6:09 for years now the sponsor of this video because they're the most affordable VPN out there less than four bucks a month and the best part is that one account can cover all your devices and family and friends devices too that way everyone stays protected plus there's even a 30-day money back guarantee so if you don't love it you can cancel anytime and get your money back let me give you a quick example the other day I got this fishing email pretending to be about an Amazon Prime delivery if I clicked it who knows what kind of malware would have ended up on my device that's why stuff like Surf Shark is a no-brainer it's not just a VPN it also comes with antivirus protection alerts if your info shows up in a data breach anonymous browsing the works i especially love it when I travel too if a website a Netflix

6:56 show or a YouTube video is blocked I can just switch my virtual location in Surf Shark and boom access granted and get this some websites even change their prices based on where you are like they'll literally charge you more just because of your location surf Shark helps you get around that too so you're not getting ripped off so if all this sounds useful make sure to go to surfark.com/htm and hey you'll even get an extra 4 months for free go take a look all right now this last trick is hands down the best way to get unlimited Google Photo storage on your account forever but fair warning it does involve spending a little bit of money upfront and I would only recommend it to those who are at the $10 per month mark on their Google One account or even higher because that's when it really makes

7:41 sense to do this method so here's the deal when Google first dropped the very first Pixel phone way back in the day they gave it this super exclusive perk unlimited photo and video backups in original quality forever no other phone not even the newer Pixels till this day have that deal and the wildest part is that Google is still honoring it with the phone no longer supporting any more updates and being stuck on Android 10 now obviously I'm not telling you to ditch your current phone and start using an 8-year-old Pixel fulltime that would be insane but here's the play you can get an OG Pixel off eBay for less than $100 i got mine for just $68.95 it just came with this broken SIM card tray but that wasn't really an issue as

8:28 I'm just planning on using the Pixel as a backup station from there you can move your new photos from your current Android over to the OG Pixel now of course I can transfer those files manually but that would be annoying to do so each time so instead to make the process a lot more streamlined I just use this app called Resilio Sync i downloaded it on both my main phone which the Galaxy S25 Ultra and the OG Pixel what Rosilio does is basically sync a folder between the two devices so anytime I take a photo on my Galaxy it'll automatically show up on the Pixel and then the Pixel handles the upload to Google Photos with that sweet unlimited storage setting it up is pretty simple too in Brazilio you just tap the little plus icon create a new folder and pick

9:13 the folder where your camera saves your pictures usually it's under DCIM and then camera then tap choose folder then create and boom you'll see all your photos and videos listed right there now quick tip if you already backed some of these up to your Google account I would recommend just deleting them first otherwise when the Pixel re-uploads them you'll you'll get duplicates nobody wants that okay now to sync the Pixel tap the three dots in the top right corner go to details and turn off selective sync you don't want to have to manually pick files every time then go to the gear icon and switch the permissions to read and write so you can manage files on both ends after that go back and hit the QR code icon then grab

9:59 your Pixel open Resilio and then tap the plus icon and then you're going to want to scan the QR code once you scan it bam you're connected just like that to the folder make sure you also turn off selective sync on the Pixel and feel free to rename the folders to something like Galaxy or whatever device you own so that you can stay organized and know which phone those files are coming from it comes in handy too if you're syncing more than one device which you totally can do and by the way even iPhones work with Brazilio since the app is also on the App Store which is kind of awesome once everything's synced up just go into the Google Photos app on the Pixel find the synced folder which is the Galaxy in this case and toggle on the backup now every time you take a photo or video on

10:45 your main phone it'll automatically get sent over to the Pixel and get backed up in original quality and take up zero space on your Google account yep unlimited storage just like that and you can keep your Pixel inside a drawer or constantly charging somewhere in the house thumbs up for that one last thing make sure that the Resilio app doesn't get shut down in the background so on the OG Pixel you can go into the app info page then battery battery optimization and set it to show all the apps then you need to look for the Resilio Sync app which is weirdly just named sync on this page so you can just search that and then change it to don't optimize you'll also want to do the same thing on your main phone so if you have

11:30 a Galaxy just go into the app info page then battery and set it to unrestricted or for any other Android you can go into the app info page too app battery usage tap on allow background usage and change it to unrestricted that way the app keeps running in the background and automatically syncing without you having to babysit it and that's it you're officially hacking the system legally free unlimited photo storage for life unless Google ever pulls the plug but honestly it's been eight years and they're still letting it happen so I think we're safe anyway tap on this video to learn about 20 great apps that can improve your Android experience or this one for a sneak peek at what's coming in Android 16 if you found this

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